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Call for Nominations:

ÂÜÀòÉç¹ÙÍø Entrepreneurial Marketing SIG/Kauffman Doctoral Dissertation Award

(Deadline: May 31st)

ÂÜÀòÉç¹ÙÍø Entrepreneurial Marketing SIG (EMSIG) is proud to announce an annual Doctoral Dissertation Award to recognize outstanding doctoral dissertation work in the marketing-entrepreneurship interface and promote quality research in the field of entrepreneurial marketing. This new annual award is made possible by the generous support of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Eligibility: All full-time PhD students are invited to submit their dissertation summary for the award. The applicant should have successfully defended their doctoral dissertation (not dissertation proposal) and is expected to complete the doctoral degree (including all final revisions, if any, and all final paper work) within two years of receiving the award. The dissertation research can use any methodology and be on any topic in the marketing-entrepreneurship interface including but not limited to the following:

• Entrepreneurial marketing from the views of multiple stakeholders
• Entrepreneurial marketing and value creation and appropriation
• Creating and managing entrepreneurial marketing
• Social costs and benefits of entrepreneurial marketing
• Entrepreneurial marketing-driven processes in firms
• Competitive intensity and the role of entrepreneurial marketing
• Role of entrepreneurship and marketing in entrepreneurial marketing
• Managerial and cross-functional implications of entrepreneurial marketing
• Effectuation and entrepreneurial marketing
• Networks and entrepreneurial marketing
• Role of entrepreneurial marketing in wider entrepreneurial ecosystems
• Sustainability and entrepreneurial marketing
• Entrepreneurial marketing in non-profit organizations
• Entrepreneurial marketing for new business, family business and small business
• Entrepreneurial marketing in crisis situations (disasters, financial crisis, etc.)

Award: The winning dissertation will receive a cash prize of $3,000 US plus free travel to attend the ÂÜÀòÉç¹ÙÍø Summer Educators’ Conference and the Global Research Symposium on Marketing and Entrepreneurship (GRSME) of the same year (up to maximum expense of $2,000). The winner will also present his/her dissertation research at the doctoral consortium of GRSME and be recognized during the awards luncheon.

Criteria for Evaluation: The following criteria will be used to judge all doctoral dissertation award nominations:

1. Relevance of the research problem to today’s challenges and opportunities
2. Scholarly contribution to literature in the marketing-entrepreneurship interface
3. Application and rigor of the appropriate research methods
4. Clarity and organization of the presentation

Deadline

Submission Deadline – May 31st: The winner must be available to present the winning dissertation at 2016 GRSME (San Diego, CA) on August 1-3.

One winner will be notified before or by Jun 30th.

Submission:

The submission should consist of a single zipped file, containing: (1) A summary of the dissertation research; (2) A nomination letter from the dissertation chair or the Doctoral Program Director of the degree granting institution; and (3) The current status of the dissertation. All three documents should be formatted as PDFs, packed into one zipped file, and named with the applicant’s name and the school name. For example, Excellent-Jason.zip is for the applicant Jason from Excellent University.

All materials must be in English. The author holds the copyright of the summary paper and the dissertation. The three documents that comprise the submission are as follows:

1. A summary paper of the dissertation research. The summary paper should be up to 20 double-spaced pages with 12 point Times New Roman font and at least one-inch margins (excluding the title page and the references), and should consist of three sections: Title Page, Body, and References/Endnotes. The Title Page should contain the title of the dissertation, author name, email, phone number, address, current institution, advisor name and contact information, degree granting institution, and dissertation completion date. The Body of the summary paper should provide a comprehensive summary of the dissertation, introducing, for instance, the topic, the research context and questions, the theoretical or contextual framework, the methodology and methods, and the findings. The summary paper should be written for blind review; hence, all identifying information should be removed from the body of the paper and, as necessary, the references. The first page of the Body should include title, an abstract of up to 200 words, and a list of keywords. Tables and figures can be embedded in the text or attached at the end; they count toward the 20-page limit. The References/Endnotes section should include a list of references formatted in any appropriate style.
2. A letter from the dissertation chair or the Doctoral Program Director of the degree-granting institution. The letter attests that, (a) the summary paper is authored by the applicant only and is based on the applicant’s dissertation; (b) the applicant is eligible for the award (see Eligibility);
3. A PDF version of the current state of the dissertation.

The above three documents should be combined into a single zipped file and submitted to the dissertation award committee chair.

Questions

Questions specific to the Doctoral Dissertation Award should be directed to ÂÜÀòÉç¹ÙÍø EMSIG Chair (Can Uslay: can.uslay@business.rutgers.edu) or the Award Committee Chair (Susan Wei: susanwei.yinghong@gmail.com).

 

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